Bill Text: IL HR0917 | 2019-2020 | 101st General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Urges the U.S. Government to rename Fort Bragg as Fort Kosciuszko in honor of Thaddeus Kosciuszko.
Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2021-01-08 - Referred to Rules Committee [HR0917 Detail]
Download: Illinois-2019-HR0917-Introduced.html
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| 1 | HOUSE RESOLUTION
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| 2 | WHEREAS, Thaddeus Kosciuszko was a Polish-Lithuanian | ||||||
| 3 | military engineer, statesman, and military leader who became a | ||||||
| 4 | national hero in Poland, Lithuania, Belarus, and the United | ||||||
| 5 | States; he built Fortress West Point, which he suggested be | ||||||
| 6 | used as the United States Military Academy, and devised the | ||||||
| 7 | winning strategy for the Battle of Saratoga, which was the | ||||||
| 8 | turning point of the American Revolution; and
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| 9 | WHEREAS, Thaddeus Kosciuszko fought to free the white | ||||||
| 10 | indentured peasants of Europe; he stood up for the rights of | ||||||
| 11 | enslaved Africans, Native Americans, Jews, women, and many | ||||||
| 12 | others; and
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| 13 | WHEREAS, Thaddeus Kosciuszko set aside his salary from the | ||||||
| 14 | American Revolution with instructions that it be used to | ||||||
| 15 | purchase and free slaves and that money be left to provide for | ||||||
| 16 | their education and for the purchase of land, cattle, and | ||||||
| 17 | farming tools for them so | ||||||
they could support themselves in our | |||||||
| 18 | free country; and
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| 19 | WHEREAS, The U.S. Army has 10 bases named after confederate | ||||||
| 20 | officers, such as Braxton Bragg, who were traitors and declared | ||||||
| 21 | war on the United States; therefore, be it
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| 1 | RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE ONE | ||||||
| 2 | HUNDRED FIRST GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that | ||||||
| 3 | we urge the U.S. Government to rename Fort Bragg as Fort | ||||||
| 4 | Kosciuszko in honor of Thaddeus Kosciuszko; and be it further
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| 5 | RESOLVED, That suitable copies of this resolution be | ||||||
| 6 | delivered to the President of the United States, the U.S. | ||||||
| 7 | Senate Majority Leader, the U.S. Senate Minority Leader, the | ||||||
| 8 | U.S. Speaker of the House, the U.S. House of Representatives | ||||||
| 9 | Minority Leader, all members of the Illinois Congressional | ||||||
| 10 | Delegation, and the Kosciuszko Foundation.
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